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>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:56:02 -0600
>To: mpls-mnforum.org
>From: Dyna Sluyter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [Mpls] Time Sensitive issue: Midtown Greenway Crossing
>at Hiawatha and Walls along the Avenue.
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> I think your going to run into some basic rail engineering
>problems here. You don't want a grade of over 2% on a railroad, so
>another 12 feet of height means you'll need another 600 feet of dirt
>or bridge approaches at each end. This could be done, but like the
>highway department says would cost mucho millions. I suspect that
>this could notoriously become the most expensive mile of bike path
>in state history, and that said mucho millions could be better spent
>on trail and rail expansion elsewhere.
>
> peace,
> Dyna Sluyter of Hawthorne
>
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